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духовник

м.р.; церк.

confessor

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духовник

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confessor

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-- Не духовник же и я; приду и уйду; и без них много дела.

"But I am not a father confessor; I shall come and go away; I've plenty to do besides looking after them."

I felt sure that he must be thinking of me even as the priest had done. That is to say, that he must be thinking that no such fine-spirited young man existed in the world as I. Suddenly he shot at me: "I tell you what, barin.

But his confessor reproved him whenever he related his longings for solitude, his cravings for an existence of Godlike purity; and recalled him to the struggles of the Church, the necessary duties of the priesthood.

Papa entered just as I did, but by another door: whereupon the priest - a grey-headed old monk with a severe, elderly face - blessed him, and papa kissed his small, squat, wizened hand. I did the same.

This reminded him of the spiritual exorcisms which one of his teachers had formerly recommended to him: prayer, a general confession, frequent communion, the choosing of a wise confessor who should have great authority on his mind.

For a brief moment I felt inclined to say "Nothing," and then run back to the drozhki and drive away home; but, for all its beetling brows, the face of the old man inspired confidence, and I merely said that I wished to see the priest (whom I named).

Then suddenly the reassuring thought occurred to me: "Why should I not drive out to the monastery when the morning comes, and see the priest again, and make a second confession?" Thereafter I grew calmer.